30th, April 2014
Money
IT has to be said that Donald Sterling, the owner of the Clippers basketball team, doesn't sound like the very brightest of bunnies. He's a billionaire, self-made, so obviously he has some brains. But if you had fairly racist views would you really go into a business where you're going to end up paying black men tens of millions of dollars a year? Which is pretty much that the owner of a basketball team in the US NBA does end up doing... More »
30th, April 2014
Reviews
GREATER Manchester Police are seeking the driver of a blue estate car who "intentionally into the back of the cyclist... slamming him to the ground"... More »
30th, April 2014
Strange But True
IT'S a Nominative Determinism knob-off in Canada, where and Ottawa man has been arrested for for indecent exposure... More »
30th, April 2014
Reviews
No. Noffink... More »
30th, April 2014
Sports
WHO will be the next manager at Tottenham Hotspur? The current incumbent is Tim Sherwood. He feels unsettled... More »
30th, April 2014
Reviews
ANN Maguire: a look at the media reporting on the teacher killed by a student in Leeds... More »
30th, April 2014
Flashback
MOVIES adapted for television series aren’t necessarily terrible; in fact, the outcome is often quite good. The Odd Couple and M*A*S*H* both had great translations for the small screen. Even Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, a dark drama by Martin Scorsese found an interesting niche in the sitcom universe via Alice.
Unfortunately, for every success, there are a sizeable number of failures. This is where I come in and deliver up ten tragic examples of where a movie was adapted for television yielding regrettable results.... More »
30th, April 2014
Sports
IN last night's Champions' League semi-final - in which Bayern Munich were thrashed 5-0 by Real Madrid - the Spanish team's Pepe squirted snot at Thomas Muller. .. More »
29th, April 2014
Reviews
FACES of the day: Workers wears a heat reflecting suit during the burning of seized drugs at a police base in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Police say they burned on Tuesday more than 11 tons of drugs including cocaine, marijuana, opium and heroin that was seized over the last 5 months.... More »
29th, April 2014
In Pictures
THE London Underground Strike - aka Bob Crow Tribute - feature some charming moments. Londonrs got to see the Old Routemaster buses, back in service to make up for the lack of trains. And Stratford station produced some artistic moments. Take a look... More »
29th, April 2014
TV & Radio
GREAT moments in TV shows presents the Swedish women unhappy with the prize... More »
29th, April 2014
Flashback
WHEN Villarreal fans taunted Barcelona’s Dani Alves by throwing him a banana, it was not entirely surprising.
Spain does, after all, have a history of this kind of racist goading, including such notable incidents as the monkey chanting directed at England players during the 2004 international in Madrid… More »
29th, April 2014
Celebrities
MAX Clifford has been found guilty of sexual abuse. He good use a good media wrangler... More »
29th, April 2014
Music
REMEMBER Edie Brickell? She was a pop-folkie way back when for Generation Xers. She's best known for 'Circle' (here, with the catchier-than-mumps "I quit, I give up" hook) and 'What I Am" which was covered by Spice Girl Emma Bunton of all people... More »
29th, April 2014
Politicians
Farage is, of course not just any old tosser. He is a Great British w*nker... More »
29th, April 2014
Arsenal
ON the 19th annual St. Totteringham’s Day - when Arsenal finish above Spurs in the Premier League - Lukas Podolski identified himself as a fan favourite... More »
29th, April 2014
Flashback
IN the 1960s, Sainsbury's began selling own-label groceries. The packaging was marvellous... More »
29th, April 2014
Liverpool
IN an incredible, worldwide show of support for Dani Alves and the exemplary, “no f**ks given” way in which he reacted to a banana-throwing incident at Villarreal (who have subsequently banned the fan responsible for life) over the weekend, scores of footballers and other personalities have posted photos on social media of them eating bananas, along with the tag-line “we are all monkeys”... More »
29th, April 2014
Books
DAVID Rose created a 'love sought' section for the London Review of Books. Rose was the organ's advertising director when a personals section in in 1998. Lovelorn literary types wrote in. The very first classified ad went... More »
29th, April 2014
Fashion
Today's everyday styles can be so tired and unremarkable - it's refreshing to see something bold and unique. Come take a look... More »
28th, April 2014
Reviews
ANNE Maguire, 61, a Spanish teacher at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds has been stabbed to death with a knife in front of pupils. A 15-year-old male pupil is in custody... More »
28th, April 2014
Music
WHEN we heard the theme tune to Duck Tales, the cartoon show, we heard a chirpy squeaking. When POW!GRL and ScottBradleeLovesYa heard the song, they performed this seductive impression of Huey, Dewey, Louie and Scrooge McDuck... More »
28th, April 2014
Flashback
The Nazis look upon us as a degenerate nation. But they have a great respect for our accomplishments. And, if they win, they may decide that we have something in our blood which can use in building their master race.... More »
28th, April 2014
Celebrities
That's right! The clearly sensitive and empathetic playwright, Matthew Lombardo and several Broadway producers, are suing someone with a spectacularly dreadful illness!... More »
28th, April 2014
Reviews
Hands down the best photo ever taken at a dog show... More »
